help i just have a black screen

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help i just have a black screen, monitor fine, install was fine, reboot then nothing, just flashing monitor on light, no post screen

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Manfredfischer wrote:

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> help i just have a black screen, monitor fine, install was fine,
> reboot then nothing, just flashing monitor on light, no post screen
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Bit more info needed before we can even guess :slight_smile:

What graphic hardware? ( card and monitor )

Have you tried booting to init 3 ( at the boot-screen just type 3 no quotes ) and login as root on the command-line enter root password and run sax2 see if you can configure your graphics from there, it sounds like you might have the incorrect frequency set and your monitor cannot display it.

HTH

–
Mark…

Nil illegitimi carborundum

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hi mark when i boot there is nothing, i have 512mb nvidia gt8500 amd64 4gb system ram i runxp and ubuntu on the same system now nothing

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ah sorry analogue samsung 19"

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i am writing this from my laptop

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Pardon a goofy question: how long did you wait? I had to wait at least 20 seconds, probably closer to a minute, for my monitor to come up. I did a lot of mouse clicking and scrolling because it appeared to be in screen saver mode. But, after I waited, it came up.

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i let it boot and came back an hour or so, still nothing, hmmm, somehow and quite mysteriously, my near new display card is now broken, rescued the system with the onboard graphics card however, thanks all

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hmmmm and hmmmm… I installed (with great difficulty) to a machine with a Trendware (Realtek chip) wifi card. The install failed until I removed the card. After installation, remounting the card caused suse to hang during configuration. This card worked up to 10.3. Remember the problem with e1000 ethernet cards getting fried? I wonder if a trend is emerging.

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Remember the problem with e1000 ethernet cards getting fried? I wonder if a trend is emerging.

I hope you’re wrong about that… I must admit there are a growing number of posts concerning similar graphics issues post install.

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lucky i had couple of beers by then, and did not have the energy to argue anymore

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The problem with the e1000 cards was a rare firmware related issue…

I think the video cards work in a different way and I haven’t seen any reports of this during the beta’s.
Don’t go jumping the gun just yet… :wink:

Cheers,
Wj